JBDive shame you didn't persevere
Just had the most awesome run of luck, quite a block party going in IRC atm
DGM does take some time to "ramp up" but if/when you stop mining you continue to be paid for several rounds you submit no shares to, this is part of what makes DGM hopping proof
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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/double-geometric-method-hopping-proof-low-variance-reward-system-39497Some of the confusion I think I'm seeing with DGM is the lag time between cause and effect. Most people seem to have figured it out, but occasionally there will be some new people or what have you that don't understand that what you do right now won't necessarily affect your payout for another 4 - 7 blocks.
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It makes for some confusing cause and effect if you aren't prepared for it or understand what's going on.
I like to think of it as a capacitor. If you have a light bulb and capacitor in parallel connected to a DC source, the bulb won't be lit right away. As the capacitor charges more current is routed through the bulb and it becomes brighter, until it reaches its maximum brightness as if there was no capacitor. If the power source is disconnected, the bulb gradually fades as the capacitor discharges its stored energy through the bulb. No energy is lost.
Of course there are many other real-life examples of this dynamic. Electric radiative space heaters come to mind - you turn them on and only after a while they become hot and heat the room. The dynamic is the same also quantitatively - in all 3 cases it can be modeled with (dx / dt) = a - bx, where a becomes 0 when the source is discontinued, and where x is itself the derivative of some quantity of interest.
For example, on EMC, if you stop mining right now, your Proportional Differential will be higher than if you had kept mining for the current block. However, 4 - 7 blocks down the road, your prop differential is going to start taking a bit of a dive until it evens out the increase you saw on the block you stopped mining on, then it will start picking back up to neutral territory.
This comment confused me until I realized you meant that you stop mining
and resume sometime later.
the capacitor analogy helps many understand
